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I think i've contracted a virus

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D2o

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I just turned my computer on and went into the Audio drive only to find lots of strange folders that werent there before as senn below

v v v v v v v v v

its the ones with the funny numbers and letter combo's

think i may have a virus????

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19-01-2007 14:54

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erm. have you recently enabled that hidden folders can be seen??

i guess it could bne a virus. or somneones bypassed your firewall and is playing around perhaps.

anyway thats all very much irrelevent.
why do u have a folder entitled piss flaps and whats in it?? Huh

19-01-2007 15:13

cynik

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Originally posted by MUNKI C
piss flap

doesnt look like hidden/system folders are enabled, they would be greyed out

yup looks like some sort of a virus. what have I told you about those boy sites?!!!!!!

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19-01-2007 15:23

D2o

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quote:

Originally posted by MUNKI C
erm. have you recently enabled that hidden folders can be seen??

i guess it could bne a virus. or somneones bypassed your firewall and is playing around perhaps.

anyway thats all very much irrelevent.
why do u have a folder entitled piss flaps and whats in it?? Huh

well nothing seams to have changed operational wise. still running fine.

piss flaps was a song i started with rewire and never got round to finishing Big Grin

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19-01-2007 15:24

D2o

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i just fully scaned my comp and it said there were no viruses at all

interesting

you think i could just delete the folders or would that open a can of worms you think?

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19-01-2007 15:25

cynik

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then it might be the second thing muknki said. that is someone broke the firewall and is now roaming free on your hard drive :X

which ofcourse could be much worse and end up in him deleting the contents

I would just change the firewall. find sunbelt kerio personal firewall. for further instructions crackedcough version get on aim this evening

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19-01-2007 15:51

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They might be temporary folders that somehow ended up there Huh

Open them and see their contents. It may be that some info in your FAT (file allocation table) was mixed up and now some totally irrelevant folders appear somewhere.

Dunno, check it up. Smile

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19-01-2007 15:53

D2o

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each one has a single .txt file in it

not sure whever opening them is a good idea Frown

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19-01-2007 18:03

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.txt files are not executables, so you shouldn't be fearing to open them. Wink

19-01-2007 18:08

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to be honest, I really don't think that is a hacked issue... Your OS would be dead by now.... Big Grin

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19-01-2007 18:36

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99% sure that these are leftovers from Windows Updates that were installed on your machine and were not deleted for some reason. It's ok to delete them.

If deleting fails you are not the owner of the folder, how you should fix that you can read here.

This might be a good moment though to check your virus scanner/firewall as you seem unsure about your protection.

Get e.g. Avast home edition (which is free) and Zone Alarm Personal Firewall, although I don't want to start a discussion about any viruskiller being bette than Avast or whatever.

Hope this helps.

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19-01-2007 19:55

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Originally posted by Muad'Dib
.txt files are not executables, so you shouldn't be fearing to open them. Wink

NOOOOO, if you have the option "hide know extentions..." switched to on even a textfile can be a threath as a file can be named blabla.txt.exe which could be some trojan or a virus.

Make sure you have the mentioned option switched to OFF at all times (in explorer go to Extra/Folder Options/Display and look for it).

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19-01-2007 19:58

D2o

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Originally posted by BattleDrone
99% sure that these are leftovers from Windows Updates that were installed on your machine and were not deleted for some reason. It's ok to delete them.

this makes sense as i just installed the latest updates.

they are actually .LOG files.

does that change the situation?

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19-01-2007 20:04

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Originally posted by Dj Jimmy C
this makes sense as i just installed the latest updates.

they are actually .LOG files.

does that change the situation?

Nope... all the same. Get rid of it and don't think about it anymore Big Grin

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19-01-2007 20:25

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yea i think he's right, i got the same stuff in my comp, it's nothing deadly.

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22-01-2007 09:32

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